Carnelian

@Carnelian@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah plenty of people develop these feelings about laser focussed games. Sekiro is a good example. Not gonna be your game if you don’t like parrying. Lots of comments online from such people who write the game off as “spam parry to win” as tho there’s no depth to it.

  Huge parry fan on the other hand? Probably your favorite game, and you’re bewildered by those comments because you feel like you could write a novel about how interesting the system is and how rewarding it is to master all the way into your seventh charmless NG+ run.

  I think at the end of the day, when the gameplay is simply not catered to our preferences we’re not really going to appreciate what makes it so great at what it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Virtual Ricochet Projectile :p

  It’s the game’s in-game (Crossworlds) terminology for the charged shot that bounces around, yeah. They cover it in the tutorial but the main cast basically ‘nerd emoji’s’ Sergey and they simply refer to it as “balls” for the rest of the game lol

  timing-&-angling annoyances

  But yeah, like I said, you just don’t like the central mechanic. It’s valid. This is the main point of contention for the minority of people who don’t click with the game, as is evidenced by filtering for negative reviews on steam

  But imagine if you didn’t find it to be an annoyance, and instead found it to be inherently satisfying? One of my favorite parts about Crosscode is how unafraid they are to present you with puzzles that are not only difficult to solve in the typical sense, but also difficult to perform once you know what to do. It’s a rare treat, most games instead lean hard only into one direction (purely cerebral puzzling or purely focussed on action)

  It’s a game that just gives and gives, and to the contrary of your experience, I found the constant innovation of the puzzles throughout the game is what brought it from A to S tier. I finished the final dungeon wishing there was more game to play. Imagine my delight when the DLC dropped and added another 20 hours of timing & angling goodness. Replayed the game 3 times over the years.

  And yeah, frankly we should compare it to Zelda, the most celebrated and beloved puzzle adventure series of all time developed and supported for 40 years by one of the largest and most influential video game companies of all time. No joke, I think this is actually exactly where Crosscode stacks up. It’s up there for me with my favorite Zelda titles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a sequel, just their next game! Combat and UI look similar so far. They’re doing dev streams on their discord

  I thought crosscode had the best puzzles haha. The way they built it out with the elemental system, the enemies that required puzzle mechanics you had learned, the tight timing where you had to send a ball flying and then race it to various objectives, the myriad of subtle environmental puzzles in the overworld. Could go on and on, but yeah the VRP is the game’s central mechanic so if you simply don’t enjoy lining up your shots then I imagine the game would be pretty rough lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Crosscode for sure! They have a new game in the works as well, it looks like it will be just as good. Great time to get into it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silksong announced for 2025 on the Nintendo Direct⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it’s totally different this time around.

  For starters Leth acknowledged Nintendo’s tweet about it by retweeting it, and setting his profile background to the new key art (which was provided by TC themselves)

  TC also provided four new screenshots of the game to Nintendo as part of a press kit.

  The xbox situation was literally never acknowledged by them at all, except for when Leth ultimately posted that it wasn’t happening lol. Apparently just based on estimates that TC had communicated with them privately, and only ever “confirmed” by a single social media person at Microsoft

  This isn’t some random Nintendo direct, but rather THE big event for their big console. And also officially and immediately supported by TC this time around. This is 100% an intentional press rollout

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silksong announced for 2025 on the Nintendo Direct⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Xbox did that I think in like 2022-2023

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PROTEIN BRO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really an accurate summary of my response, nor of the prompt.

  I was directly and specifically asked “why not take creatine?”, and yes, the annoying proliferation of supplement culture is one of about ten issues I listed.

  And while not the fault of creatine alone, I am shocked that anyone would not take issue with it. When every influencer is shilling supplements. When you walk into a gym and they sell supplements themselves behind the counter. When a beginner hires a personal trainer and they gush about the many different supplements they need to start buying, but end up barely improving anyway because their actual training is sub par.

  When a would-be beginner is repulsed by the idea of stepping under a barbell at all, because their only exposure to the gym was their gross bro-y roommate in college who monopolized the top of the fridge with his collection of huge tubs of all the different ridiculous powders everyone thinks they need.

  It is far from nonsense my friend, it is a notable social harm. This is lemmy, yes, we’re likely a bit older? You’ve lived enough now to see some friends and relatives crumble with age? Resistance training is the best thing to prevent this. Normal people are repulsed by the tubs of powder. Many people are repulsed enough to purposefully avoid training. This is a terrible thing.

  I wouldn’t belabor the point if its truth hadn’t confronted me so many times. I would be curious to get your actual thoughts on the matter, rather than your unsupported and rather offensive insinuation that I am the one who hasn’t thought carefully about all this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PROTEIN BRO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, if you want to know earnestly some reasons why not.

  For starters, it is literally completely unnecessary.

  Beyond that, it perpetuates the broader harmful falsehood that lifters need a cabinet of supplements, thereby turning many people away from the gym who are repulsed by the idea.

  The above falsehood has personally annoyed me many times. I am visibly very muscular, and have had friends, family, and even strangers warn me, unprompted, about the dangers of supplements lol. I gather there was a news story about lead in protein powder that went viral, and everyone assumes I must be taking all the powders, probably because of how cavalier gym folk are about insisting everyone hop on all the powders

  It has a gross sandy texture, upsets people’s stomaches (especially if they try the “creatine loading” phase which is so popularly suggested), and interferes with their sleep (if the countless anecdotes are to be believed).

  It does have potential serious side effects in some populations that don’t get talked about often. People with bipolar disorder shouldn’t risk taking it, neither should people with kidney disease.

  If you are healthy and ever get bloodwork done, you need to remember to explain to your doctor that you supplement creatine beforehand, otherwise they may think you have kidney disease.

  Five grams per day of creatine monohydrate dissolved in a glass of water is cheap. Creatine pills are not. Creatine gummy bears are not. Creatine in preworkout (yet another constantly shilled powder) is not. The massive list of non-monohydrate creatine products are neither cheap nor effective lol. When we say “definitely everyone should hop on creatine!”, a good percentage of people will end up going down one of those paths.

  And to top it all off, the beneficial effects for muscle building are dramatically overstated. People talk about it like it creates some cascading compound interest effect you can’t afford to miss out on, when in actual reality, everyone who has been around the block knows you reach the point of diminishing returns very quickly when you are consistent in the gym lol. If you put 5 hard years in without it, there isn’t a soul on earth who could pick you apart in a lineup of creatine users.

  Now your response to all this may be “none of this is really that big deal!” and you know what? I agree. I frequently cite creatine as being one of the big three non-scam supplements (protein, caffeine, creatine). They have a real effect, unlike virtually all other gym products. My issue, to put it most broadly, is with the attitude we perpetuate regarding supplementation in general. That it’s so thoroughly and totally taken for granted that every single person should want to pay for and incorporate every single advantage.

  That we frame it as being “an advantage” at all, as if the simple love of training is not in and of itself a great joy which transforms the lives of everyone it reaches. No no, instead, as is typical of all “worthy” pursuits, it is an investment to be capitalized upon. Faster is always better, bigger is always better. Do not allow yourself to be captivated by the scenery flying by, if for a moment it distracts you from shoveling ever more coal into the furnace of this godforsaken train everyone insists our life must become.

  ahem. Well, apologies for going off the rails a bit there. That’s been stewing in me for a long time. I also don’t take protein powder lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iceland knows what's up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Britain has a Vagina Museum! They’re active on Mastodon too, actually. Top tier posters, highly recommend a follow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PROTEIN BRO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  train more faster

  We can discuss the merits of specific supplements all day, but I find this mindset paradoxically results in worse progress for most people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PROTEIN BRO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally take it a step further and question whether the extra 25% is worth it at all.

  Even creatine has its downsides, in that it’s a powder you have to pay for and remember to choke down every day. And in the end, all you get is the same progress you would have gotten anyway, just a bit faster.

  For me, who cares if what took you 5 years could have been done in 4 if everything was “optimal”? Why are we so obsessed with “optimizing” everything, when in reality this mindset just results in 90% of people giving up?

  *I should add I have no critique of someone who wants for themselves every possible advantage, or educates others about it. But presenting these things as being synonymous with the gym is a huge public disservice. It would be like aggressively trying to funnel every single person who wants to buy a car into becoming an F1 driver

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PROTEIN BRO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gym myths are my favorite. The best past is the extreme prevalence of survivorship bias, with most of the bad advice coming from people who have succeeded but are themselves mistaken about why.

  i.e. Massive bro is adamant that everyone should be taking BCAAs, beginners are inclined to believe it because it looks like he knows what he’s talking about.

  I think the fitness industry makes most of its money this way tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is chasing an old high⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I will take this moment to recommend Crosscode, one of the all time greats

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People complain that it's poor design that humans eat and breath through the same pipe(throat). Are there any animals which don't though?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dolphins are the most classic example, having the blow hole.

  Insects ‘breath’ through their ‘skin’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out the revised Kurzgesagt script, they have pretty much the best and most up to date collection of research papers at the moment

  I actually was introduced to the topic by Mike Israetel when he was reviewing Herman Pontzer’s research. So when I watched the original Kurz I was super confused because it seemed to make a different conclusion than the work they were citing. I’m glad they made the revised version

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the body compensates for it to an extent.

  You know how lot of people report exercise makes them feel better? Releases dopamine, relaxes them. A result is that they actually fidget less, their heart rate slows, and other energy burning processes in their body relax.

  The buffer is relatively large in fact, like possibly over 200-400 calories per day depending on the person. I think of it as the body’s flywheel for keeping an energy balance.

  One should keep exercising, for the numerous benefits. There also is a point where you are burning calories that need to be made up (either through eating or weight loss), ask any endurance athlete. Just not likely to hit the threshold in 20 mins on the treadmill, which is what many people do for exercise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.world does not load comments sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh thanks for letting me know

  Yeah that is very strange, I also have the same setting ticked that way, also due to the text suggesting to keep it that way haha. Left it alone the whole time I’ve been on this account

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.world does not load comments sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll keep an eye on the behavior, never thought to compare it with the website (otherwise I’m also seeing it in Voyager, same as OP)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.world does not load comments sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this sometimes as well, I only have one user blocked and I’m pretty sure it’s not them (spam account from the big spam drama. I think LW blocked the instance, even)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That misses the question a bit, no? Everything that is wrong to do is a personal choice. It’s not relevant to whether or not it should be done

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate it when that happens⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, come to think of it, what’s up with that one anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Dev Fuels Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Fever With a Picture of a Chocolate Cake⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The silksong community is one of my favorite of all time for years now. Every couple of weeks a new “theme” of insane shitposting evolves. Most fun and creative silly posting I’ve ever seen.

  One common post is “_____ every day until silksong comes out”. People are doing fanart challenges, one guy posts a video of himself petting a cat every day which is very popular. The cat had to get a surgery at one point and needed a cone but was fine.

  It’s not just noise. It brings people a lot of joy. There’s been several posts over the years from people basically grieving the potential loss/change of the community once the game actually drops. I’ll miss it, too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Dev Fuels Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Fever With a Picture of a Chocolate Cake⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No no it’s good, this is actually better than them making a proper announcement. Community loves this shit.

  Quick summary:

  Dev changes name, handle, and pfp on twitter. Posts a cryptic message about keeping your eyes closed tomorrow.

  Reverse image search of pfp leads to a recipe released April 2nd

  Cryptic message appears to be a reference to an Imagine Dragons thing from April 2nd

  “Tomorrow” was interpreted as being related to the big switch 2 reveal, launching April 2nd

  The name and handle also appear to be references to things having to do with April 2nd

  The community is ablaze right now. Without a hint of irony: there is more genuine belief in the game actually coming out this time than there was before the original delay was announced in 2023, back when we had an official release date

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨**SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT**⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Slamming ctrl+P and reading the print preview works in many cases as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Switch 2 Announcement Expected This Week⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Silksong launch title?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to make your decesion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So the salt crystal deodorants are potassium alum, which has been used for thousands of years for various things. It’s a naturally occurring rock, and people found it has mild antiseptic properties and stop small cuts from bleeding. It’s a popular aftershave for that reason, commonly available for purchase as an “alum block”.

  When used as a deodorant, what’s actually happening is you’re creating a salty layer on your skin that bacteria can’t form on. (No idea how that works out in practice, I use actual deodorant lol). And indeed it is used in many actual deodorants for that exact purpose

  HOWEVER, and I want to mention this not because you said anything wrong but because I have found it to be a source of confusion for many people, it is not the same as the aluminum salts used in antiperspirants. Namely aluminum zirconium and aluminum chlorohydrate. Different chemicals. They function by blocking your pores so the sweat doesn’t release in the first place.

  Many people are concerned, whether or not the concerns are founded, that the antiperspirant aluminums are mired in health risks such as cancer. The alum blocks are not wrapped up in that in any way, other than the fact that they are also used in (and used alone as) deodorant. It’s an interesting little piece of nuance that doesn’t come up much due to the relative non-popularity of the alum blocks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Treat taking a dump like a sport⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody starts their fitness journey from a different point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Mr. Neutron now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Derek is a pretty awful person, as a heads up.

  Spoilers for nsfw just in case

  Tap for spoiler

  But yeah apart from his ridiculous manosphere misinformation in general (such as telling his audience masturbation causes penal atrophy), he recently read through some laughably, obviously fake Imane Khelif rage bait and concluded that any abuse she receives is completely justified unless she releases scans of her genitals. Is that really where we’re at, Derek? Mandatory public genital scans of any female athlete at the request of any transvestigator? Overall he’s just a pretty serious loser tbh, altho I have to admit taking down Liver King was rad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably just a lot of bloatware. When I’ve been in this situation in the past, I did a completely fresh install of windows. Much smaller. Linux can free up even more space.

  There really isn’t anything necessary from HP, but it also depends a lot on your comfort working with the computer so ymmv. I don’t know what’s gonna happen if 3 months down the line you need to call customer support for something. If it were me, I’d be thinking “worst case scenario I can just factory reset”, especially if I had everything important backed up somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Okami sequel - Project Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Christmas has come early!